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The LHC: or how the world's largest experiment can investigate matter's smallest constituents
- Speaker:
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Dr Tara Shears, Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Liverpool
- Starts:
- June 21, 2007 at 06:30 pm
- Ends:
- June 21, 2007 at 07:30 pm
- Location:
- The Royal Society, , 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG United Kingdom
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Description
Deep beneath the Swiss countryside, final touches are being made to the world’s largest piece of scientific equipment – the Large Hadron Collider (or LHC for short). The LHC is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built. It is capable of recreating the very energetic conditions last seen in the universe a billionth of a second after the Big Bang, and allows particle physicists to study the fundamental ingredients of matter that the universe was formed of at the time. Amazingly, it will do this 40 million times a second, and use enormous high tech experiments to record what happens.
Why would we want to go to such lengths to explore the structure of matter? In this lecture, Tara Shears will discuss how the LHC will help scientists learn more about the nature of matter and expand the frontiers of our knowledge further than ever.
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
Additional information
Royal Society Public lecture. Admission free – no ticket or advance booking required
This lecture will also be webcast live from www.royalsoc.ac.uk/live
For more information
- Contact person:
- Royal Society events
- Phone:
- 020 7451 2607
- Email:
- events [ at ] royalsoc.ac.uk
- Website:
- The LHC: or how the world's largest experiment can investigate matter's smallest constituents
